Tom Lawrence

Thumbs down to the problems and confusion that led to a shutdown of work on the extension of East Monroe Street.

The one-block addition between South Jones Street and Panther Boulevard was added to the city last fall as a Missoula-based developer planned a $2.3-million apartment complex. The Buck Creek Apartments were scheduled to open June 1.

Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, New York senator, secretary of state, and very possibly the next president of the United States, had to extract one of her modest-heeled shoes from her mouth last week.

Thumbs up to the Park County District Boundary Board for voting unanimously, if not happily, to recommend expanding the Powell school district’s borders to include the northern section of Yellowstone Park.

This became an issue earlier this year when the Park Service announced it would no longer pay to educate the students, who attend classes in Gardiner, Mont. Suddenly, the problem was in the lap of the state of Wyoming.

The Powell High School Class of 1949 wanted to do something special for its 65th reunion.

Special for someone else, that is.

The class decided to raise money and donate it to the Backpack Blessings Project, which raises money to help ensure needy kids don’t go hungry. The class, which will join other Panther alumni at the Alumni Weekend festivities on June 27-29, is raffling off a quilt.

The last step in hauling Powell’s household garbage to Billings, Mont., was taken by the Powell City Council Monday night.

The council agreed to a five-year landfill agreement with Billings during its meeting Monday night. It will be effective July 1 if the Billings City Council gives its approval, as is expected, to several contracts with Powell and other clients Monday night.

Eva Nakamura Kuwata’s family was uprooted from their California home in 1942 and taken to a remote, cold camp in northwest Wyoming. They were forced to live behind barbed wire and under the watch of armed guards, three of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans who were forced into internment camps following America’s entry into World War II.

The deadline was Friday and Park County voters will have choices to make in the Aug. 19 Republican primary. There are races for sheriff, with three candidates, for the Park County Commission, with eight candidates for three seats, and for three of five legislative seats.

Guerra Torres wasn’t well-known in Clark, but some people knew him in this rural community near the Wyoming-Montana border. They didn’t talk much about him before, but they do now, since it was revealed last week he was the man found murdered in the Little Sand Coulee on Jan. 9.